Imperia. Some hackers managed to breach the current account of the Imperia lawyer Antonella Micali, and they almost managed to make a bank transfer of 9,100 euros in favor of their accomplice. It happened on November 19th. If the scam did not go through it is thanks to the bank’s security systems and the intuition of the lawyer.
It all started with a message from Banca Intesa San Paolo, the credit institution where the lawyer has a current account. In the message, Micali is notified of a suspicious operation. “Dear customer, we have detected an anomalous access to your business account, follow the procedure to verify …”, reads the message.
Immediately after, a second text message arrives, asking to approve a bank transfer of 9,100 euros. A few minutes pass and the lawyer receives a phone call: he is a man, who claims to be a bank operator, who warns Antonella Micali of the suspicious operation, tries to reassure him by saying that the institute has already blocked his account and credit cards. Then he asks to know the code sent by sms to complete the operation. At this point, the lawyer hangs up the phone and calls the bank, the real one, from which it will appear that no (real) employee has ever called her. At that point the account is blocked for real before someone, who in all likelihood has been able to access the woman’s account and also knows her mobile number, can sign the bill.
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